48 Hours in Purgatory

Mother's Day

Well it's Mother's Day - a pretty exciting day around my place for sure.  As I (and presumably the others involved in the film) take a little breather today to focus on family, it's a reminder to keep things in perspective.  The whirlwind of filmmaking, like many other exciting times in life, come and go in a blink.  It should be our family and friends around us that have the most meaningful place in our lives.  They'll be there when the dust settles, unless you abandon them in pursuit of a collection of exciting moments.

This week is going to be crazy!  I'm going to spend Monday on some "real" work helping a friend finish shingling a roof.  Great writers can tell brilliant tales not only because they're story-tellers, but because they have lived.  Few things are more inspiring than smashing your thumb with a hammer, believe me.

After that it's head first into movie-land.  Final bookings, location inspections, wardrobe assessments and all the final scrambling which no amount of preparation seems to eliminate.

Thursday morning I'll have the pleasure of collecting our DP and two lead actors in Toronto, and by Thursday night we open set on a mini-shoot (candid footage).  Friday Morning the sparks fly and we go into two solid weeks of 16+ hour days.  You can't store sleep, and you can't catch it up, but a steady flow of coffee is almost as good!

As I'm able I'll be "tweeting" and sharing photos from shooting at least daily.  For those of you who twitter, the link is http://www.twitter.com/skinlessjsn.  It's very unlikely I'll get in more than one blog entry during that time, but we'll see how it goes.

I hope you're all having (or have had) an excellent Mother's Day.

Jason